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\ ` R``0 The Weekly Newsletter of Sydney Boys High School Vol 14 No 23 2 August 2013 H From the Principal assistance. We rely a great deal on Head High Talent Coach Antonio Signorello who has shown Kevin Robinson (Year 10) has been commitment to helping High’s program. Thank you to coaches Leo Yang, David Lu, selected in the New South Wales and Shaun Pak. I Volleyball team. Our rugby program has taken a new Winter Sports Assembly 2013 direction this year with more emphasis on Special guest Mr Paul Reid, players, running rugby. Our junior sides are building coaches, staff, parents, students – welcome their competitiveness. People are positive G to our Winter Sports assembly for 2013. We about the program. Sam Musgrove and celebrate today the achievements of those Joshua Leo were selected in the CHS U16 boys selected for GPS teams in winter sports. team. George Barris has been tireless again as MIC. I want to thank our dedicated The new SBHS Sports Policy is being fully coaches: 13s - Geoff Stein, Mick Aldous, implemented for winter, 2013, including Paul Scrivener with Max Jones; 14s - Tony multiple training as well as Saturday Hannon with Andrew Walters, Jesse Moffat H attendance. We expect that it will bring and Jasper Garay; 15s –George Barris and greater certainty, consistency and Anthony Cipolla, with Kumidika Gunaratne accountability to our competitive sports and Sangeeth Sabramaniam; 16s – Con programs. There are some teething Barris and Graham Moody with Rob Lyon problems with roll marking and follow up at and Michael Wong; 3rds Bill Wang; 2nds – some training sessions but by summer the Pat McDonnell and Sam Gribble and the first system should be bedded down. We feel this XV- David Knox, Tony Hannon and Mark policy is a big step in the direction of building Giachera. The depth of coaching support for competitive capacity at High. our rugby boys is impressive. As always the Rugby Committee provides terrific support Cross country running has a growing profile for our boys. at High. Additional training sessions and N some emerging talent have combined to Association Football has seen some raise our school standard, with some changes this year. With the introduction of impressive achievements. Luke and Jayden Mr Soccer training sessions, we hope to Schofield, Elliot Love and Kevin Guo ran deepen and broaden the development base very well at the All Schools Championship for football skills. Teams have been pruned for 14 years teams. High was also in numbers to increase participation levels in O represented by Steven Chung, Kenneth Liu training and in competition. Arjun Punekar, and Lokesh Sharma in the 17 years teams. Michael Cui and Daniel Arzani were selected Individual competitors at All Schools were: in the GPS Combined squad. Mehdi Hazrati Thomas Nimac, Brendan Hancox, Jonathan has returned to coach the first XI with Ian Clements-Lendrum and Nelson Tang. Thank Robinson guiding second grade. Thank you you to Rebecca Dam for her organisation of to our football staff for their commitment to T the sport and to Messrs Kesting Bigelow and Football. The team, led by MIC Matthew Elliott for their involvement in its operation. Mulroney, includes: Alex and Mark Thank you to our Old Boy coaches Ming Robertson, Julie Eggleton, Evan Higgins, Chen, Vincent Ye and Anton Brokman. Jamie Kay, Mina Genias, Ingrid Hybler, Natalie Stanisich, Madeleine Rigby, Jessica Fencing is developing well in several Millar and Victor Jauregui. The Football E disciplines. At the National Championships in Committee has contributed to the program. Brisbane, James Siu won gold in the U15 Thank you to Anne Wall, Ian Robinson and sabre and John Tian in the U15 épée. Thank Tony Nimac. you to Paris Munro for taking over as MIC this year and organising the sport so well. S Thank you also to Evan Higgins for his In sport we can’t all be champions, but we can of the United Nations. SBHS was very well dream like them and in our limited ways, act like represented in awards with 8 honourable them. Think of C2D2. Confidence and commitment, mentions and Lokesh and Tushaar received a desire and discipline. You need a passion for what nomination as best delegation. you are doing, a vision for where you are going and a persistent set of actions that you need to take to On Friday I was very proud to watch our Year 12s get there. You can behave like a champion and if debate against Karaba High as the negative on the you do so as a team, you are very likely to achieve topic 'that we should introduce off shore processing the goals you set yourself. Congratulations to all in PNG' and win very convincingly. boys selected in GPS teams this season. Dr K A Jaggar This means that for the second consecutive year our Year 12 PDC team have reached the final to Late Arrival & Absence Notes – compete for the prestigious Hume Barbour trophy All Students and Parents which currently stands in our main entrance. I have Please ensure you include your son’s Full Name/ID 40 tickets to this event and I am prioritising debating Number/Year and Roll Class when submitting students for them. This is a wonderful opportunity to absences, late arrivals or leave applications. Thank see two very good teams debate each other in the you for your cooperation Great Hall of Sydney University on Monday 5th August. Applying for Leave of Absence Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make To apply for a leave of absence for your son: our first GPS hosting of 2013 such a success. Thanks to the parents and thanks to my helpers: • Log in to the Parent Portal Oliver and Jens who worked really hard. Again a • Access the School Reference Documents special thanks to Nina and to Eden Freiberg who section assisted her. • Download the Student Leave of Absence Application Form in the Applying for We had a fairly even split between Scots Leave folder competition wins and our wins. There were some disappointed groups of students who narrowly Please return this completed application form to the missed out on wins and some happy students who Principal giving at least four weeks’ notice of were victorious. We must keep a positive focus intended absences. through the competition. Learn from the comments of the adjudicators and from our excellent coaches. If you are a debater or debating parent you should DEBATING sign up for the debating email. I am regularly The Debating Assembly went well and we were surprised at the number of families not receiving the lucky to have Paul Barry of Media Watch fame weekly email. There have been 19 of these this speak to us about some successes and triumphs in year. Please email me at [email protected] the debating and public speaking sphere. Tushaar with your name and son’s year group. and Andrew from Year 11 did well as MC and when announcing the guest speaker. Khushaal gave a Future Debates rousing speech in recognition of the debating 2nd August SBHS v Kings program and to introduce Firsts and Seconds. 5th August Hume Barbour Final 9th August SBHS v Shore On Thursday ten Year 11 students attended the Ms Powell SUSMUN competition where they debated as MIC Debating country representatives in the various spheres FROM THE JUNIOR LIBRARY THANKS TO KEVIN EADIE Over the last few years Kevin who drives our school bus in his retirement has taken an interest in our Library and donated books he has just finished reading. Kevin takes the trouble to think about what our student might be interested in and donates intelligently. Once again our Libraries are grateful for his thoughtfulness in donating The end of the Chinese Dream by Gerard Lemos. NEW RESOURCES OUT ON SHELVES THIS WEEK LIBRARY EVENTS COMING UP • An author visit by Scott Gardiner to Year 9&10 • The Junior Library Amateur Chess Competition DISPOSED BOOKS It is 15 year old book disposal time in the Junior Library. Many of these books are still really good reads and some are classically good. It is just that their time has come. Students are invited to take a small hoard home for holiday reading if they wish. See blue grey shelves beside the bag racks. Mrs Crothers Teacher-Librarian What’s Up in the McDonald Senior Library? 2nd August, 2013 2013 in the Senior Library has been busy with many more students making use of our facilities for study, assignments and accessing resources than ever before! The addition of new resources has meant that our borrowing has increased markedly since the Senior Library was established, when borrowing was primarily done by Seniors from the Junior Library. These days Senior students are finding required reading, research and high interest materials in the Senior library. The development of our collection has focused on the addition of prize winning and literary fiction for English studies, wide reading materials for Years 10 & 11, HSC related texts, Asian literature in English, Indigenous literature, curriculum related and high interest non-fiction, biographies, poetry and short story collections and study guides. Several of our senior students have been helping out with specific projects in the Senior Library. Senior Library prefect, Albert Chau has been engaged in a project to collect and make available previous exam papers for loan to other Senior students in the library. These will add to our useful and popular collection of study guides to assist students to revise for upcoming examinations including the HSC. Many other students have assisted us in various library tasks including shelving, shelf tidying, processing of books, and many other jobs.